ABC Monday Night Football sideline reporter Lisa Guerrero is paid to talk, but she won’t speak.

With all the harsh criticism of Guerrero’s work in her first season, NYP TV Sports thought it would be appropriate to find out her side. When reached Wednesday morning, Guerrero told us we had to clear the interview through ABC’s media-relations department.

Late Wednesday afternoon, an ABC spokesman said Guerrero was “unavailable.” A minute later, we got her on the phone again.

During the five-minute conversation, Guerrero no-commented us four times, saying, “I’ll let my work speak for itself.”

Asked if she were told not do interviews, or if she herself had decided not to do interviews, Guerrero said, “I don’t have a comment.”

NYP TV Sports is not the only publication that wanted to speak with Guerrero this week. Sports Illustrated, in its current issue, has a story on Guerrero in which ABC said she was “unavailable.”

ABC lead spokesman Mark Mandel, when asked if it were ABC’s current policy to not let Guerrero answer questions, called that an “absurd question” and advised a reporter to look up the word “unavailable.”

“Unavailable,” according to the American Heritage Dictionary, means “not available, accessible or at hand.”

NYP TV Sports spoke to Guerrero for five to 10 minutes Wednesday. She was available, but she wasn’t talking.

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